Grade 2 Mini lessons Weeks 11-12, 15 -Samples copy

Week 11 and 12 Mini-Lesson: Friendly Letters
Grade 2 Sample
The Mini-Lesson section of the book is available as resource to you as you introduce the new
skill each week.
Prior Knowledge:
People write letters to friends and family about what is happening in their
lives.
Lesson focus:
Students will learn the correct capitalization and punctuation of the date,
greeting, closing, and signature of a friendly letter. They will observe the
placement of these items and the overall format of a friendly letter, but
they will not be responsible to position these items at this grade level.
Date: June 15, 2005
Greeting: Dear Ciarra,
Closing : Your friend, ( Suggest that students think of the closing like a
Signature: Andrea sentence…only the first word is capitalized. )
Lesson Strategies:
The teacher will model writing a friendly letter on chart paper or on an
overhead transparency. Label and explain the parts of the letter: date,
greeting, body, closing, and signature. Take time to go over the types of
punctuation and capitalization needed for each part of a friendly letter.
Resources:
Picture Books to support this skill:
1. Dear Mrs. La Rue: Letters From Obedience School by Mark Teague
2. The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters
by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg
Web sites:
3. For a more extensive list of picture books that model and inspire letter
writing: jc-schools.net/write/books-letter-write.pdf
4. Students can also use web sites to write their own letters:
readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/ - 2k
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Week 15 Mini-Lesson: Forming plural nouns by adding “–s”
Grade 2 Sample
Prior Knowledge:
Students add the letter “–s” to many nouns to show that there is more than
one.
Lesson Focus:
Students will learn that the term “singular” means one, and the term “plural”
means two or more. They will learn that the plural for most nouns is made by
adding a letter “–s” to the end of the noun.
Lesson Strategies:
1. Review the difference between the meaning of singular and plural. Review
this rule: add the letter –s to the singular spelling to form the plural of most
nouns. Have students generate examples of words whose plural is formed by
simply adding “–s.”
Singular= one
pencil
home
street
Plural= two or more
pencils
homes
streets
Mini-lesson song:
“ Singular and Plural”
To the tune of “Frère Jacques” or “Are You Sleeping”
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Stanza 1- sung solo by the Stanza 2- sung by 2-3
teacher or one student
students or the entire class
I am singular.
I am singular.
That means one.
That means one.
One cat, one dog, one chi-ld,
There is only o-ne.
Singular means one.
Singular means one.
We are plural.
We are plural.
That means more.
That means more.
Two or three or many,
Cats or dogs or children.
Plural means more.
Plural means more.
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